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“Frank was no stranger to bending the rules. He knew they’d have it in for him if he started stepping on the wrong toes, and when Frank started stepping on toes, bones were bound to break. In the past, it was usually his own so this was his compromise; stealing evidence, snapping photographs and keeping quiet about the whole thing.”

Ex-cop and part-time strip club owner, Frank Black, has agreed to investigate a missing local judge for a free month’s rent. It seems like an easy job. A good deal. That is until the bodies start to mount.

Set in the sprawling city of Los Angeles, Hard Play is sexy, fast, fun, and Frank black is tough as nails. But is that enough? With the help of Amy Van, the leggy medical examiner who’s slowly stealing Frank’s heart, can he put it all together before anyone else has to die?

But things are not entirely as they seem in San Jose. It is here that jaded, chain-smoking Marcus Metiline’s world is turned upside down. ​After taking a mediation job with the ​ubiquitous BelisCo and meeting a peculiar doctor beyond the city’s zoned limits, Marcus’s world quickly unravels.​ It all starts with flashes of déjà vu and memories that have gone astray. ​As Marcus searches for answers to the increasingly strange events around him, it’s not long before he discovers that the fate of the world rests ​in him.

He’s been told exactly what he needs to do… But is something bigger moving him along?